Defensive end Carlos Dunlap signed a six-year, $40 million contract to remain with the Bengals. The Bengals want to keep their Fisher-Price Package ? Dunlap, Michael Johnson and Geno Atkins ? intact.

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Joe Reedy
jreedy@enquirer.com

The person who might have been the most surprised about Carlos Dunlap's contract extension with the Bengals was the one who received it.

With the six-year, $40 million deal officially announced Tuesday, the fourth-year defensive end said he didn't expect it to happen this close to the start of training camp.

"It definitely came as a surprise. We've been talking for a few months now, but it didn't get to crunch time until yesterday," Dunlap said on a conference call. "Drew (Rosenhaus, who is Dunlap's agent) came up there and pulled me over to the side and was like, 'Hey bud, we need to sit down and ...